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Utilitarianism
The Ethical Theory of "Utilitarianism" is the most reasonable approach to morality. Utilitarianism does not rely on unclear beliefs or abstract principles; it is instead a fairly simple theory to understand. It contains ideas we are acquainted with, like the idea that something that makes us happy is better than something which does not. Nearly all of us would agree that murder, lying, rape and theft are bad, and that loyalty, generosity and truthfulness are good. Thus, things we agree to be good tend to make people happy and things we agree to be bad make people unhappy.
The first traces of Utilitarianism were initially seen in the late 1780's in William Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) and in the British jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789). The Principle was later expanded by John Stuart Mill in his Utilitarianism (1863). Utilitarianism uses the notion of the......

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